O'Reilly Velocity Conference -- June 22-24, 2009

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The second annual O’Reilly Velocity conference will be held from June 22-24, 2009 at the Fairmont in San Jose, CA. The conference has two tracks—web performance and operations. The sessions are targeted at engineers, developers, engineering managers and engineering focused executives.

Keynotes for Velocity 2009 will be given by Jonathan Heiliger, the Vice President of Technical Operations at Facebook and Marissa Mayer, the Vice President, Search Products and User Experience at Google. Videos of select sessions from Velocity 2008 are available online.

A sampling of the speakers and topics on the agenda include:

• Luke Kanies (Reductive Labs), Introduction to Managed Infrastructure with Puppet
• Mandi Walls (AOL), Migrating www.aol.com from a Proprietary Web Platform to Open Source
• John Allspaw and Paul Hammond (Flickr), 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr
• Bill Scott (Netflix), Event Delegation: Speeding Up the Netflix Queue
• Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!), Ajax Performance
• Richard Campbell (Strangeloop Networks), Death of a Web Server: Crisis in Caching
• Jeremy Zawodny (Craigslist), MySQL Performance from Day #1
• John Adams (Twitter), Fixing Twitter: Improving Its Performance and Scalability
• Stoyan Stefanov (Yahoo!), YSlow 2.0
• Robert Johnson (Facebook), High Performance at Massive Scale - Lessons Learned at Facebook
• Nicole Sullivan, Nine Ways Engineering and Design Come Together to Make Your Site Slow
• Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo!), Writing Efficient JavaScript

Early registration for O’Reilly Velocity is available through May 3, 2009. Workshops comprise the first full day of the conference and the Ignite sessions for Velocity containing fast-paced new technology talks and demonstrations will held the first night, Monday June 22nd.